ORA-12716: Cannot ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET when CLOB data exists

Cause: CLOB data changes representation to Unicode when converting to a multibyte character set and must be migrated

Action: Remove CLOB data as listed in the alert file. CLOB data can be migrated by methods such as import/export

Error Type: ORA

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